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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
Henrik Ibsen
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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog? It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get rid of them.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite medicine, but not health acquaintances, but not friends.
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It is not for a care-free existence I am fighting, but for the possibility of devoting myself to the task which I believe and know has been laid upon me by God -- the work which seems to me more important and needful in Norway than any other, that of arousing the nation and leading it to think great thoughts.
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People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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